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  title info:
    title: Possible and probable languages
    sub title: a generative perspective on linguistic typology
  name:
    name part: Newmeyer, Frederick J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In this important and pioneering text, Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why some grammatical features are more common than others.
  table of contents: Preface; 1 On the Possible and the Probable in Language; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Possible human languages; 1.2.1 Formalists and functionalists on the notion 'possible human language'; 1.2.2 The problem of knowing what is possible; 1.2.3 Teaching 'impossible' grammars; 1.2.4 The problem of explaining what is possible; 1.3 Probable and improbable human languages; 1.4 Two methodological approaches to capturing typological generalizations; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Parameterized Principles; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Early generative syntactic typology; 2.2.1 Syntactic typology and markedness theory.
  table of contents: 2.2.2 Deep structure and typological consistency2.2.3 UG principles and the solution of typological problems; 2.3 The Government-Binding program for capturing parametric variation; 2.3.1 Luigi Rizzi and the parameterization of Subjacency; 2.3.2 The Government-Binding program and typology; 2.3.3 Some examples of GB parameters; 2.3.4 Predicting the clustering of typological properties; 2.3.5 The typological implications of the core versus periphery distinction; 2.3.6 Markedness relations within core grammar and typological inconsistency; 2.3.7 Mark Baker's Parameter Hierarchy.
  table of contents: 2.3.8 Constraints on possible parameters2.4 Parameters and typology in the Minimalist Program; 2.4.1 Minimalist mechanisms and typology; 2.4.2 Kayne's antisymmetric program and typology; 2.4.3 Microparameters; 2.4.4 Summary; 2.5 Parameters, typology, and language acquisition; 2.6 Parameters, typology, and language change; 2.7 Conclusion; 3 Parameters, Performance, and the Explanation of Typological Generalizations; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Against a parametric approach to grammar; 3.2.1 The 'standard story' on the superiority of the parametric approach.
  table of contents: 3.2.2 The deficiencies of parameter-setting models3.3 The irrelevance of typology for grammatical theory; 3.3.1 Typologically and linguistically significant generalizations; 3.3.2 Robust typological generalizations do not fall out from UG principles; 3.3.3 Typological generalizations are not reliably D-structure generalizations; 3.3.4 Simpler grammars are not necessarily more common grammars: The case of preposition-stranding; 3.3.5 Typological generalizations and 'knowledge of language'; 3.4 Hawkins's processing-based explanation of cross-linguistic variation.
  table of contents: 3.4.1 Grammar as a conventionalization of performance preferences3.4.2 Efficiency and complexity in grammar; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 In Defense of the Saussurean View of Grammar; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Usage-based models of grammar; 4.3 The appeal of usage-based models; 4.4 Functional explanation is fully compatible with formal generative grammar; 4.5 Connectionism and usage-based models of grammar; 4.6 Full grammatical structure is cognitively represented; 4.6.1 A typology-based argument for full argument structure; 4.6.2 Matthew Dryer on the question of canonical word order; 4.6.3 Get again.
  note: Frederick J. Newmeyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Typology (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Generative grammar
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
  subject:
    topic: Functionalism (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Typologie (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: Grammaire générative
  subject:
    topic: Grammaire comparée et générale
  subject:
    topic: Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Grammar & Punctuation
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Functionalism (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Generative grammar
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
  subject:
    topic: Typology (Linguistics)
  classification: P204 .N49 2005
  classification: 415/.01
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      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
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    language of cataloging:
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